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Objectivity Underscores Scalability At Intel-SGI PAC
Concurrent with the launch of the world's first Intel and SGI Parallel
Application Center (PAC), Objectivity announced Objectivity has concluded its
"First Project" using the outstanding PAC resources. The project is the first
step of a retest of a previous 32-bit UNIX benchmark, done this time on the
64-bit standards-based high-performance SGI Altix platform. This project
demonstrates how the breakthrough technologies of Objectivity, Linux, Intel
and SGI together meet the rapidly growing demand for managing very large and
complex data.
Ideally Suited Technologies
Objectivity was quickly accepted to participate in using the Intel-SGI
Parallel Application Center because the architecture of Objectivity's
database, Objectivity/DB, is ideally suited to the SGI Altix architecture.
Objectivity/DB can take advantage of the unmatched processor scalability of
Altix to support the addition of more database clients; Intel Itanium 2
processors are the leading database performance engines; and the superior
system I/O of Altix enables ultra-fast data flow and communications, and the
addition of more Objectivity databases in a federation.
A Benchmark To Be Broken
The previous UNIX benchmark, performed with SGI on a 32-processor SGI Origin
server running the IRIX operating system, explored the performance boundaries
of commercially available database, file system, and hardware technologies.
The tested system demonstrated the throughput of a linearly scalable
combination of Objectivity/DB, SGI NUMAflex supercomputer architecture and SGI
InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS, simultaneously ingesting, processing
and querying data objects and the relationships between them at a rate of over
32 Terabytes per day.
First Project Results
Un-tuned performance measurements from this First Project show excellent
throughput on-track to beat the earlier benchmark results. With tuning and
optimal storage configuration, the next step projects are expected to achieve
ingest rates exceeding the previous UNIX benchmark for scalability and
performance in the 64-bit High Performance Computing and Very Large Database
environment.
"Intel-SGI Parallel Application Center has provided us with an excellent
environment where we can build upon our previous scalability benchmarks,"
according to Jay Jarrell, president and CEO of Objectivity. "These benchmarks
and the efforts of our customers continue to establish Objectivity as the
world's largest database."
About Intel-SGI Parallel Application Center
The Intel and SGI Parallel Application Center provides a leading-edge
environment for organizations, developers and ISVs to optimize applications
for the Intel Itanium 2 processor-based SGI Altix platform, reducing software
development time and cost. The Parallel Application Center, located in
Swindon, UK, delivers a fully managed platform and all the tools required for
organizations to port, optimize, validate and evaluate application scalability
and performance on the 32-way Intel Itanium 2 processor-based SGI Altix 3000
system.
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